BruceWayne Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 6:30 max eh. Nice. How long have you been practicing? And did you start off untimed or with a more higher time limit? Or did you always work with 6:30? I find a lot of the questions I get wrong are because I feel rushed towards the end of the time limit. And the breakdown I posted was for VR. Here's the science breakdown though: 5 question passage - 6.5-7 mins. 6 question passage - 8 mins. 7 question passage - 9-9.5 mins. I started early May and I started out timed from the get-go, and usually take 3:00 max to read passage and then the rest to answer questions, but I never go back to the passage until the very end if I'm 50/50 on a question, but usually my gut is right. When I first started I was getting around 7:30-8:00. And I probably shouldn't say 6:30 max, more like around 6:30, give or take 10 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceWayne Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 6:30 max eh. Nice. How long have you been practicing? And did you start off untimed or with a more higher time limit? Or did you always work with 6:30? I find a lot of the questions I get wrong are because I feel rushed towards the end of the time limit. And the breakdown I posted was for VR. Here's the science breakdown though: 5 question passage - 6.5-7 mins. 6 question passage - 8 mins. 7 question passage - 9-9.5 mins. Most of the TBR passages have 7 questions but SN2ed says we should be doing 1 ques./min. How many questions are on the actual MCAT and how much time do we have for each section? Also I found this pretty helpful. http://forums.studentdoctor.net/archive/index.php/t-39366.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpatient Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 TPR gives you "extra" time because they telly you to skip/guess the hardest passage giving you extra time on the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngillcri Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Is 7th edition ExamKrackers fine, or is there a more recent edition out I can buy? I am only finding 7th edition on Amazon.com. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGo1990 Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 TPR gives you "extra" time because they telly you to skip/guess the hardest passage giving you extra time on the others. The times they have listed don't seem to be adjusted to accommodate their strategy. There are 7 passages on the MCAT. If you spend 8 mins (on average) per passage, you'll finish with 4 minutes left to spare. But I've also heard the passages are longer on the real thing. There doesn't seem to be a consensus as to whether this is due to larger font or the passages actually being longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAPTORS99 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Does anybody know if the verbal passages at the end of the EK verbal and math book are the same as the practice exams from the 101 book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowbell Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Have all of you been able to keep up with SN2's schedule? Right now I am about a week a half behind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpatient Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 The times they have listed don't seem to be adjusted to accommodate their strategy. There are 7 passages on the MCAT. If you spend 8 mins (on average) per passage' date=' you'll finish with 4 minutes left to spare. But I've also heard the passages are longer on the real thing. There doesn't seem to be a consensus as to whether this is due to larger font or the passages actually being longer.[/quote'] Yes, there are 7 passages however PR wants you to do 6 out of the 7 so you put in 9 mins or so for each then for the 7th passage just guess completely. You want to spend ideally 7 mins per passage going down to 6 according to SN2ED. Would I use the PR strategy...no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecobeco Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Cowbell, I'm having trouble keeping up mainly due to school I'm around 10 days behind as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0ny Posted May 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Thank god I'm not the only one that's behind. I'm about a week behind now but I should be able to catch up once the people I tutor finish school. We shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowbell Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Man I work a part-time job and when I get home I am not motivated to study. God I hate this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlaw Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 I'm also behind where I want to be. I'm in 2 spring classes and working part time among other things. I've come to realize I'm not going to be very productive until my classes finish up so I've modified the schedule accordingly. SN2ed wasn't joking when he said to focus solely on the schedule. Unfortunately that isn't realistic for a lot of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looktoabove Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Working full time and studying for mcat is tough I'm trying to think if I should try to do thus all next summer, maybe take a leave of absence or quit altogether Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick1234 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 I'm also behind where I want to be. I'm in 2 spring classes and working part time among other things. I've come to realize I'm not going to be very productive until my classes finish up so I've modified the schedule accordingly. SN2ed wasn't joking when he said to focus solely on the schedule. Unfortunately that isn't realistic for a lot of people. Tell me about it. Took me 4 days just to finish day1. I can't never seem to leave work as early as I plan to, something always comes up and even when I do, I'm so tired that it prolly takes me twice as long to understand/do the questions and read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAPTORS99 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 How is everybody doing on verbal? How many wrong per passage? Seeing any improvement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UofTkid Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 2-3 wrong / Passage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecobeco Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Yup averaging a couple wrong every passage...the lack of regular practice is definitely not helping much either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof.A.DumbleDore Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 I am inconsistent still. Ranging from perfect and then I would get 3-4 wrong the next passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAPTORS99 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Same here; although my scores haven't been as inconsistent (haven't bombed a passage in a while - 1-2/passage). I've done mostly TPRH and did the EK warmup a few days ago. I find TPRH focuses alot more on specific detail from the passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlaw Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Same here; although my scores haven't been as inconsistent (haven't bombed a passage in a while - 1-2/passage). I've done mostly TPRH and did the EK warmup a few days ago. I find TPRH focuses alot more on specific detail from the passage. Ya I got destroyed when I tried using EK's method on TPRH. Once I adjusted my strategy for it, I settled in quite nicely. I'm a little skeptical about how well TPRH is really preparing me. It's great for timing and training yourself to read critically, but does it resemble the AAMC's, and more importantly, the MCAT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitellubv Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 If you ain't cryin, you ain't tryin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecobeco Posted June 2, 2012 Report Share Posted June 2, 2012 Ugh this is terrible I'm still on day 12 or so I start the schedule May 1st.... I'm done school in 12 days so I'll have about 65 or so days to do around 78-80 days or work hopefully I can pull it off anyone have similar troubles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlaw Posted June 2, 2012 Report Share Posted June 2, 2012 Ugh this is terrible I'm still on day 12 or so I start the schedule May 1st.... I'm done school in 12 days so I'll have about 65 or so days to do around 78-80 days or work hopefully I can pull it off anyone have similar troubles? There's not much wiggle room for content review. You may be able to save time by cutting the FL review days to 1 instead of 2. I'm going to try and compress it a little bit but we'll see what happens. There's also break days you could try to eliminate. Be careful though; it's a fine line between efficiency and burning out. The break days should be the last to go IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof.A.DumbleDore Posted June 2, 2012 Report Share Posted June 2, 2012 You may be stuck with your date, it seems that its getting tougher to get into other MCAT exam dates now. Unless you check routinely to see if someone cancels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpatient Posted June 2, 2012 Report Share Posted June 2, 2012 Behind 15 days isn't too much, it just means for about a week and half your gonna have to double up. Plus there might be an easy topic for you so you can do more that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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